and _then_, when i enter a mythical round-trip and click the "Book" button and it forwards me to the airline's webpage, all the selections are gone and I get to choose from a list of flights again
google may "don't be evil", but it's nowhere near "don't be suck"
I just checked a 1-stop round trip I booked last week, and instead of the dozens of options that Expedia and Travelocity offered, this thing gave me bupkis.
It also tried to force my local airport into the From box, even when I had entered another. How can I fly from two airports two thousand miles apart?
The Cray-1 is sitting half a division above the line. As that's a logarithmic abscissa, that Cray is putting out about 3X as many calculations per KWh as the on-the-line entrants are.
The Altair-8800 is sitting right on the line, being non-impressive to its contemporaries, while the Cray is blasting them with its laser vision and eating nothing but salads.
They do have a continual use for mass quantities of computation. But it looks like it's not a 24/7 workload. And with $/core dropping like a rock, this iteration of the "biggest" may be cheaper than the last, and therefore not the sort of budgetary lightning rod that building-sized supercomputers used to be.
inasmuchas anything newsworthy for nerds can be said to be non-newsworthy for nerds, and the line between nerd and non-nerd moves with the subject, then yes, this could be newsworthy for bash or skein nerds
on the other hand, it's the first i've heard that they were cooking up a SHA-3. so maybe there are multiple layers of nerdiness involved.
tomorrow i expect to see your posting of how you've implemented it in brainfuck.
The government was developing missiles and rockets, and Goddard thought they infringed, so he filed for royalties (or rather, his widow did, since he died during WW2).
The government, as is its nature, dragged its feet.
But when Sputnik flew, the government shat its pants and expedited paying Goddard's estate for the patents so that it could accelerate its rocketry programs.
Ummm, patents are for ideas that can be manifested. Not for simply ideas (such as math or logic, unless you perform the math or logic in some physical apparatus). Working or not working is not an issue. No actual manifestation need exist before (or after) the patent is granted. Drawings and words are all the USPTO needs.
If you have billions of dollars to spend on a building that makes the news three times a week four years before it opens, then you're already in a coccoon separated from the realities of human existence, and you might as well have a pretty place to work while you're there.
If you want Apple and its employees to feel like people, tax them until they all have $0 in the bank and $20k/year take-home pay, and make them work in whatever lean-to hasn't been condemned by the Earthquake inspectors.
While a full gigabit on my notebook would be a hog, not just a waste, something more than 100 mbps wouldn't be bad at all, and there aren't many standards in between 1 gbps and 100 mbps.
And, most important, even though one notebook doesn't need a full gigabit, I want the whole pipe coming to my house. Because I want to use my notebook while someone else is using theirs and we're both streaming HD video while the TV is streaming HD video and we're doing all this HTML5ish interactive crap in other windows.
I still have flashbacks of going on killing sprees in one of the maps. You could run around in circles going up the stairs, get the guy climbing into or sniping from the spaces across the street; jump out the crack in the wall, get the guys coming around the corners on the street, run back in the door, get the guy coming in the back way because he saw a guy go in there, go back up the stairs, get the guy who went there because he saw you go there, repeat, repeat, repeat.
And then the time I logged into an M1-rifles-only map and waxed 9 people in a row while we're all zig-zagging in the middle of the road.
>If you really think that the only reason companies don't intentionally kill people is because of laws you are beyond hope.
Have you ever thought about what those cigarette company executives were thinking after they found out (in the nineteen-fucking-thirties) that they were selling sticks of poison?
The only reason companies don't intentionally kill people is because of laws that would stop them from profiting from it. Absent those laws, killing you is a profit center and therefore a company will be formed to exploit it.
Just an n.b. because I looked it up because "melamine used as a filler" sounded odd because it'd be a really expensive filler:
It isn't used as a filler, it's used to jack up the score on the protein-counting test (which is really a nitrogen-counting test and therefore exploitable) and pretend the food has more protein than it does. A little melamine looks like a lot of protein.
Back when Medal of Honor: Allied Assault came out, the world freaking changed.
Now new games have incremental improvements in look and equipment, maybe a little tweak to gameplay, but they're no longer revolutionary, and it takes revolutionary to keep the niggling from dominating the culture.
Especially when the thing you're niggling about keeps getting you pwned.
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Fuck that. What's the ticker symbol for "Beowulf Cluster"?
And if it starts copying Cleverbot, we may get freakin' Unicorns one day...
and _then_, when i enter a mythical round-trip and click the "Book" button and it forwards me to the airline's webpage, all the selections are gone and I get to choose from a list of flights again
google may "don't be evil", but it's nowhere near "don't be suck"
It's also not influenced by any results.
I just checked a 1-stop round trip I booked last week, and instead of the dozens of options that Expedia and Travelocity offered, this thing gave me bupkis.
It also tried to force my local airport into the From box, even when I had entered another. How can I fly from two airports two thousand miles apart?
Consider this a Google pre-Alpha release...
There's an even more obvious difference.
The Cray-1 is sitting half a division above the line. As that's a logarithmic abscissa, that Cray is putting out about 3X as many calculations per KWh as the on-the-line entrants are.
The Altair-8800 is sitting right on the line, being non-impressive to its contemporaries, while the Cray is blasting them with its laser vision and eating nothing but salads.
Perhaps it can program Crysis...
I think 2) is not seeing the whole story there.
They do have a continual use for mass quantities of computation. But it looks like it's not a 24/7 workload. And with $/core dropping like a rock, this iteration of the "biggest" may be cheaper than the last, and therefore not the sort of budgetary lightning rod that building-sized supercomputers used to be.
Actually, it does.
I remember taking possession of a spanking-new Thinking Machines cluster some <mumble> years ago.
The principal investigator got it to do one particular calculation, and promised the excess would be put to good use.
We spent our time trying to figure out what "good use" meant in that context.
It hasn't got much easier.
I say if you run out of numbers to crunch of your own, these days, just hook it up to some lucky grid-computing project and let it swamp the stats.
I was imagining partitioning it into an enormous brigade of heterogenous virtual machines, then hooking those up as a Beowulf cluster.
>Is this really 'newsworthy'?
inasmuchas anything newsworthy for nerds can be said to be non-newsworthy for nerds, and the line between nerd and non-nerd moves with the subject, then yes, this could be newsworthy for bash or skein nerds
on the other hand, it's the first i've heard that they were cooking up a SHA-3. so maybe there are multiple layers of nerdiness involved.
tomorrow i expect to see your posting of how you've implemented it in brainfuck.
I did, but you guys just couldn't read it.
As opposed to what? "A ship (rocket)?" No such thing! Ludicrous! Fitty cent!
Actually, you have it backwards re Goddard.
The government was developing missiles and rockets, and Goddard thought they infringed, so he filed for royalties (or rather, his widow did, since he died during WW2).
The government, as is its nature, dragged its feet.
But when Sputnik flew, the government shat its pants and expedited paying Goddard's estate for the patents so that it could accelerate its rocketry programs.
If you can land a helicopter on a boat (and you can), then you can land one of Bezos' rockets on a boat.
Ummm, patents are for ideas that can be manifested. Not for simply ideas (such as math or logic, unless you perform the math or logic in some physical apparatus). Working or not working is not an issue. No actual manifestation need exist before (or after) the patent is granted. Drawings and words are all the USPTO needs.
If you have billions of dollars to spend on a building that makes the news three times a week four years before it opens, then you're already in a coccoon separated from the realities of human existence, and you might as well have a pretty place to work while you're there.
If you want Apple and its employees to feel like people, tax them until they all have $0 in the bank and $20k/year take-home pay, and make them work in whatever lean-to hasn't been condemned by the Earthquake inspectors.
While a full gigabit on my notebook would be a hog, not just a waste, something more than 100 mbps wouldn't be bad at all, and there aren't many standards in between 1 gbps and 100 mbps.
And, most important, even though one notebook doesn't need a full gigabit, I want the whole pipe coming to my house. Because I want to use my notebook while someone else is using theirs and we're both streaming HD video while the TV is streaming HD video and we're doing all this HTML5ish interactive crap in other windows.
You can patent thin, rectangular computers with rounded corners, yes.
The only thing I know you can't design is cup handles. Cup-handle-shaped computers, you can probably get away with.
That's the system. You can patent what they haven't said you can't. And it's yours until the patent runs out.
Want it improved? File a patent on a new patent system. Then implement it and make it work.
I still have flashbacks of going on killing sprees in one of the maps. You could run around in circles going up the stairs, get the guy climbing into or sniping from the spaces across the street; jump out the crack in the wall, get the guys coming around the corners on the street, run back in the door, get the guy coming in the back way because he saw a guy go in there, go back up the stairs, get the guy who went there because he saw you go there, repeat, repeat, repeat.
And then the time I logged into an M1-rifles-only map and waxed 9 people in a row while we're all zig-zagging in the middle of the road.
Good fraggin' times.
>If you really think that the only reason companies don't intentionally kill people is because of laws you are beyond hope.
Have you ever thought about what those cigarette company executives were thinking after they found out (in the nineteen-fucking-thirties) that they were selling sticks of poison?
The only reason companies don't intentionally kill people is because of laws that would stop them from profiting from it. Absent those laws, killing you is a profit center and therefore a company will be formed to exploit it.
Just an n.b. because I looked it up because "melamine used as a filler" sounded odd because it'd be a really expensive filler:
It isn't used as a filler, it's used to jack up the score on the protein-counting test (which is really a nitrogen-counting test and therefore exploitable) and pretend the food has more protein than it does. A little melamine looks like a lot of protein.
So it's an adulterant rather than a filler.
The more you know.
If one of the guidelines is "No data shall be allowed to escape the system," then that's good enough.
And you have a better rulemaking system?
Back when Medal of Honor: Allied Assault came out, the world freaking changed.
Now new games have incremental improvements in look and equipment, maybe a little tweak to gameplay, but they're no longer revolutionary, and it takes revolutionary to keep the niggling from dominating the culture.
Especially when the thing you're niggling about keeps getting you pwned.
Apparently, Samsung's lawyers are not that bright.